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Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word.
Platen
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
Dan Quayle
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Ellen Glasgow
The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.
Dorothy Parker
What words cannot convey ... the mind can read.
Stephen Richards
One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.
Cassandra Clare
If I where to describe myself in one word, a new word should be made.
Anonymous
Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and an incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to be any growth in a society or in the human race.To misuse the word is to show contempt for man. It undermines the bridges and poisons the wells. It causes Man to regress down the long path of his evolution.
Dag Hammarskjold, Markings, p. 9
Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
Julian S. Huxley
On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
Wendell Phillips
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
Malcolm De Chazal
I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
Stuart Chase
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
Aldous Huxley
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
Dale Carnegie
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
Mark Twain
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.
I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
A word too much always defeats its purpose.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
James Russell Lowell
